Wednesday, April 2

Entrepreneurship

Besides a ninety pound Great Dane puppy, a chubby lab/retriever mix, fifteen ducklings, one duck and a rooster we also have thirteen laying hens.
Last year when Andrew found a twenty dollar bill lying in the middle of nowhere in the country on a walk, he decided to buy some chicks from the farm store. Now that spring has sprung and blessed us with more daylight, we are getting more eggs than I can use - almost a dozen a day.

And so the egg business know as Andrew's Eggs has begun. First, we washed and shined up the best of the eggs and divided them into half dozens with each dozen containing one magical blue egg. (Baaaaad kitchen lighting makes them look gray here.)

Andrew paid Annaliese fifty cents (marketing!) to make him cards for his sales. Inside reads:

Andrew's Eggs

FreshFree DeliveryFabulous Taste

*Plus a magical blue egg!$2.00 dozen

Keep a local chicken employed. :)

Andrew put on a dress shirt and belt and those clam-diggers of his with white socks just crack me up. (We did have him cover up the blaring socks before he left the driveway.)
Very professional about it all, he brought along a pad and pencil for taking orders and practiced what to say. I love that kid.
Off to a few neighbor houses they went with their free samplings of eggs.
As far as finances go, we teach our kids that 10 percent goes to God, 10 percent goes to savings and they can decide what to do with the rest. Andrew has his sights set on more playmobils.

P.S. - The blue/green eggs were deemed "magical" because they come from a special sort of hen which only lays this color egg.